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1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
On sociocultural and nonliteral : a synopsis and a prophesy / Herbert L. Colston -- Making sense of how we make sense : the paradox of egocentrism in language use / Dale J. Barr and Boaz Keysar -- Contextual expressions and common ground / Richard J. Gerrig and William S. Horton -- Context and the comprehension of nonliteral meanings / Thomas Holtgraves -- Social and cultural influences on figurative and indirect language / Herbert L. Colston -- Irony as persuasive communication / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Christin D. Izett -- Do men and women differ in their use of nonliteral language when they talk about emotions? / Kristen E. Link and Roger J. Kreuz -- Discourse and sociocultural factors in understanding nonliteral language / Albert N. Katz -- Social factors in the interpretation of verbal irony : the roles of speaker and listener characteristics / Penny M. Pexman -- Explicit negation as positivity in disguise / Rachel Giora [and others] -- Stereotype processing and nonliteral language / Tracie L. Blumentritt and Roberto R. Heredia -- On mosquitoes and camels : some notes on the interpretation of metaphorically transparent popular sayings / Carmen Curco -- Metaphors in sign language and sign language users : a window into relations of language and thought / Marc Marschark. |
| Summary |
"Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. These influences include gender, cultural differences, economic status, and inter-group effects, among others. The effects these influences have on people's use, comprehension, and even processing of figurative language, comprise the main theme of this volume. No other book offers such a look at the social and cultural influences on a whole family of figurative forms at several levels of cognition." "This volume will be of great interest to scholars and professionals in the disciplines of social and cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition as well as cognitive and other fields of linguistics where scholars have interests in pragmatics, metaphor, symbol, discourse, and narrative. Some knowledge of the empirical and experimental methods used in language research as well as some familiarity with theories underlying the use, comprehension and processing of figurative language would be helpful to readers of this book."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Figures of speech -- Social aspects.
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Figures of speech. |
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Social aspects. |
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Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Colston, Herbert L.
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Katz, Albert N.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Figurative language comprehension. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005 0805845062 (DLC) 2003049526 (OCoLC)53076811 |
| ISBN |
1410611620 (electronic book) |
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9781410611628 (electronic book) |
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0805845062 (alkaline paper) |
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9780805845068 (alkaline paper) |
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